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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 19 2017, @03:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the brighter-future dept.

I think we can use some positive emotions in our lives and this 3:50-minute SF movie created by Erik Wernquist certainly delivers a positive view of our future in this solar system that seems to rather lack in stories coming out of Hollywood recently. Made my day again, same as movie shot by Juno probe at Jupiter. This really is a masterpiece and it must have taken tremendous amount of CGI work. Narration is by Carl Sagan reading the first chapter ("The Wanderers") from his 1994 book "The Pale Blue Dot." I wanted to describe the locations displayed in the movie, but it was too spoilery and you can easily guess most of them anyway.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/108650530

Erik has a website with more films at http://www.erikwernquist.com/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:07PM (#528063)

    Hell, with offerings like Malazan Book of the Fallen, calling Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy fantasy is an insult to that genre.

    The 80s seemed like it was really good for the fantasy genre in film, but I don't see that era returning any time soon.

    I think there is a term we can apply to what passes for fantasy and sci-fi in Hollywood: potboilers [wikipedia.org].